[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On 08/14/2006 08:50 PM, Rony cobbled together some glyphs to say:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:49:25AM +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
>> But in any case, I think you have already made the mistake ...
>> fasten your seatbelt kiddo, the flames are coming :)
> Just because a person uses linux, he need not know who is RMS. During
>  one of our meets I had asked this question to a member too and I got
> a decent reply with some details about him. There is no need to get 
> hyper about RMS queries. If people can't be polite its their negative
>  nature and such people will only make windows really win. We will be
> the loosers.

Ask yourself this small question ---
``What is the minimum amount of knowledge you can expect from a member
of a GNU/Linux Users' Group mailing list?''
It's not really about losing or winning a war. It's about knowing _why_
we are here today. No more, no less.
Let me paraphrase Eben Moglen in this --- ``People who don't know the
_why_ will hardly ever understand the _how_''. That's exactly what I can
see happening. People just _love_ to shout about ``Linux'' and the
greatness of ``Open Source'' but fail to understand something as
fundamental as ``Freedom''. Trust me, it's not just about the software,
it's about the whole society. No matter how many ``Linux'' users are
there in this world or how many companies support ``Open Source'', the
whole Free Software revolution will remain a failure as long as we don't
understand what Freedom is.
Regards,
BG

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Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose at ubuntu.com>
Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings
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